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Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… time was 10s. 2 In Wiseton were four bovats of land and an half, which anciently were wont to yield 10s. which … John, gave to one William le Harper paying 15d. per annum, and his heirs continued to hold it. 3 The jury, in 3 E: 3, … here and there, have a pleasing effect. The Chesterfield canal, which takes a winding course of two miles, through …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… lies for the most part on the southern side of the Sence, and the river and its tributaries form the parish boundary on the north and … line of a Saxon road. 12 It crosses both the Sence and the canal by bridges known as Wain Bridge; that over the Sence …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the union of Bodmin, E. division of the hundred of Pyder and of the county of Cornwall, 5 miles (W. by S.) from … a branch of the river Froome: the Gloucester and Hereford canal was opened to Withington, in Feb. 1844. The living is a … and the soil consists of loam. The Oxford canal and the Trent-Valley railway pass through. The living is a discharged …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by mechanization, the introduction of the factory system, and the emergence of large commercial family firms. 1 The … the working population, by far the largest single group, 2 and in the 1880s the industry was still called the town's … Prov. Dir. (18234), s.v. maltsters; for coal transport by canal, above, intro. (communications). Pigot's Lond. & Prov. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Oxford, originated as a planned medieval market town and borough, laid out by a bishop of Winchester in probably … From the 17th century it became widely known for its cloth and blanket industry, and after 1945 it was developed as the … between Radcot and Oxford. 89 From 178990 the rival Oxford canal and Thames and Severn canal, with wharfs at Lechlade …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Andrew) WIVELISCOMBE ( St. Andrew), a market-town and parish, in the union of Wellington, W. division of the … W. division of Somerset, 28 miles (W.) from Somerton, and 155 (W. by S.) from London; containing 2984 inhabitants. … by computation, and is intersected by the Basingstoke canal, and the London and South-Western railway, the latter …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… granted to the family of Clare, who gave the manor and church to Tintern Abbey, together with several granges … conveyance is afforded for the produce by the Nottingham canal, which runs through the middle of the parish. Wollaton … are good inns and extensive corn-warehouses near the river Trent and the Grand Trunk canal, and where a cattle-fair is …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… paid for it to the Dane-geld after the rate of a carucat and an half. The Land was then for twelve oxen, or twelve … but at 60s. The Soc extended into Totteshale, Brauncote, and Sudtune. [Pedigree] The family of Mortein were the next … among other paintings, a view of Nottingham from the trent; good portraits of the late Lord Middleton and Lady; an …
A History of the County of Oxford
… abbey consolidated much of its demesne land in Wolvercote and St. Giles's parish into a single block of land straddling … the process: in return for land at Ailmerswell, Horestone, and Hawsland ditch in the north end of St. Giles's, Godstow … in 1795 meadowland and arable near the newly-cut Oxford canal was said to have been damaged by water leakage, some of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… an ancient parish lying on the north-west of the city and liberty of Oxford, c. 2 ½ miles north of the city centre, contained two settlements, Upper and Lower Wolvercote; the adjoining extra-parochial areas of … old course of the Cherwell later followed by the Oxford canal. The eastern, higher, ground is on Oxford Clay and the …